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cometdogamundo's avatar
cometdogamundo
Rising Novice
2 months ago

Can't delete or overwrite saves (steam)

I'm playing on PC on Steam, and I'm having an issue where I cannot delete or overwrite my save files. Every time I try overwriting a save, the game makes a duplicate save with the same name as the one I'm trying to overwrite instead. If I try to delete a save, I go through the process and confirm I want to delete it, but the save does not disappear. 

I'm someone who likes to constantly save my game and I tend to have 1 main file I use that I overwrite frequently, and then make additional saves for specific moments I want to have separate. Because of the duplicating and being unable to delete saves, I now have 15 save files when I really should have 3 or 4. 

I've tried verifying my game files but I cannot think of anything else to try and fix it. I haven't seen anyone else have this issue. I included a clip of what happens when I try to delete files.

  • Cythiriya's avatar
    Cythiriya
    Rising Newcomer

    I have the exact same issue. Very frustrating, did you find a fix? I guess I'll try manually deleting the saves out of the folder itself, because I also save very frequently.

    • cometdogamundo's avatar
      cometdogamundo
      Rising Novice

      Unfortunately no, I haven't found a fix yet. I've just been going in and deleting the saves I don't want manually. Although it works, it's frustrating. I also realized that because the game isn't overwriting saves properly, that includes autosaves and decision saves too. I haven't seen many others with this issue and so far I haven't found a real fix yet, but fingers crossed!

    • cometdogamundo's avatar
      cometdogamundo
      Rising Novice

      Yeah, I'm getting close to the limit myself. Really hope a fix for this comes soon.

  • Clarelover200's avatar
    Clarelover200
    Seasoned Newcomer

    I am having the same issue. I have tried deleting the saves from the game files directly and then when I load the game they somehow appear again. I really don't know what to do and am almost out of saves. I am on steam as well

    • cometdogamundo's avatar
      cometdogamundo
      Rising Novice

      I was having that problem, but turning off cloud saves for Veilguard fixed it! Try turning that feature off, then deleting them from the files. That should let them be deleted

      • Clarelover200's avatar
        Clarelover200
        Seasoned Newcomer

        That actually did work! I really hope they find a fix for this soon!

  • Having the same issue, and my game is no longer auto saving either! Keep losing progress and my save slots are rapidly filling up, it's a pretty serious issue...

    • cometdogamundo's avatar
      cometdogamundo
      Rising Novice

      Yeah, it's super frustrating. It's too bad the patch yesterday didn't fix the issue. It's really making it hard for me to keep playing.